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Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.

Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.
– Susan Sontag

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  1. Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art. – Susan Sontag
  2. Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. – Susan Sontag
  3. With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind – like most historical evidence. – Susan Sontag
  4. Photographs that depict suffering shouldn’t be beautiful, as captions shouldn’t moralize. – Susan Sontag
  5. Rest in peace? Please, God, no. Haunt me, Sofia. You said you’d haunt me. – Helen Maryles Shankman
  6. It is intolerable to have one’s sufferings twinned with anybody else’s. – Susan Sontag
  7. [O]ne person’s ‘barbarian’ is another person’s ‘just doing what everybody else is doing. – Susan Sontag
  8. But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else. – Susan Sontag
  9. Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions -” which become your life. – Bryant McGill
  10. But I realize now that the toughest choices, the ones that will haunt us for the rest of our lives, are ones that my mom is still sheltering me from. – Susan Ee
  11. You will never say goodbye to the past, until you understand why the flashbacks haunt you. – Shannon L Alder
  12. My library is an archive of longings. – Susan Sontag
  13. Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (Probably yes.) – Susan Sontag
  14. Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. – Susan Sontag
  15. The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local. – Susan Sontag
  16. I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces -˜intelligence. – Susan Sontag
  17. To the militant, identity is everything. – Susan Sontag
  18. Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. – Susan Sontag
  19. The only interesting ideas are heresies – Susan Sontag
  20. Most of my reading is rereading. – Susan Sontag
  21. One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life. – Susan Sontag
  22. Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world. – Susan Sontag
  23. Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex. – Susan Sontag
  24. With genius, as with beauty — all, well almost all, is forgiven. – Susan Sontag
  25. Depression is melancholy minus its charms. – Susan Sontag
  26. It’s not love that the past needs in order to survive, it’s an absence of choices. – Susan Sontag
  27. There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: ‘Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. – Susan Sontag
  28. How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion! – Susan Sontag
  29. A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the w – Susan Sontag
  30. If one could amputate part of one’s consciousness… – Susan Sontag
  31. Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. – Susan Sontag
  32. All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. – Susan Sontag
  33. All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation. – Susan Sontag
  34. One can never ask anyone to change a feeling. – Susan Sontag
  35. To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. – Susan Sontag
  36. It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin. – Susan Sontag
  37. My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. – Susan Sontag
  38. I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting. – Susan Sontag
  39. The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or by duplication – Susan Sontag
  40. I have always been full of lust – as I am now – but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path. – Susan Sontag

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